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But in recent years, producers haven’t been able make enough of it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Abramson is also hoping Raman will be able to deliver more affordable housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
The researchers were able to separate the cellular changes responsible for this rewiring from a behavioral response commonly associated with psychedelic effects.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
"Writers who were able to cut their teeth on fanfiction, and just write as much as they wanted with all the joy and no constraints, can lead to really great novels," she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
“I just thought that I might be able to help you improve your form even more. Given that I used to lay down a pretty good fly, I might be of help.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2015
After hearing Lemnitzer, Tennessee's Albert Gore stalked out with an angry demand that all the Chiefs of Staff "be replaced by new, wiser and abler men."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Antmoos held off; so did Eurymakhos, suitors in chief, by far the ablest there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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